The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 32: Good News.
Dwázda-Sála-i Jahángírí; Wáki’át Jahángírí, of the Emperor Jahángír (Elliot & Dowson, extracts) 32
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The second happy tidings was the death of Bahadur, son of the chief of Gujarat, and the leaven of insubordination and turbulence. God of his mercy destroyed him, but he died a natural death.
The third happy tidings was the defeat of the Portuguese (Warzi), who had made every preparation for the capture of the port of Surat. An action took place between them and the English, who had sought refuge in that port. Most of their vessels were burnt by the English, and not being able to stand the contest, they took to flight, and sent a message to Mukarrab Khan, the governor of the ports of Gujarat, suing for peace, and representing that they had come with peaceful views, not to fight, and that the English had been the first to quarrel.
[Another piece of intelligence that came was, that the Rajputs who had resolved to kill (Malik) ’Ambar had concealed themselves till they found an opportunity of approaching him, when one of them gave him an ineffectual wound. The men in the escort of ’Ambar killed the Rajput, and carried their master off home. A very little more would have made an end of this cursed fellow.]
[At the end of the month, while I was hunting in the environs of Ajmir, Muhammad Beg arrived with a letter from my son Sultan Khurram. * * From the letter it appeared that on the 26th Bahman the Rana came in and paid his respects to my son, with all the observances required by the rules of the Imperial Court. He presented as tribute a celebrated ruby belonging to his family, and * *. My son received him with great kindness; and when the Rana advanced to kiss the Prince’s feet, and beg pardon for his offences, the Prince raised him up, did his best to cheer him, and presented him with a jewelled sword, etc., etc. It is the practice among zamindars, that they, and the son who is heir-apparent, never present themselves before kings together; so the Rana had not brought his son Karan, who was his heir. But the Prince wished to depart on that same day, so the Rana took his leave, and sent his son Karan to wait upon Khurram, and on the same day he started with the Prince on his journey to the Imperial Court.]